A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include "Possession," winner of the 1990 Booker Prize.

In the same format as The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, this collection deals with the themes of loyalty and betrayal, quests and longings, loneliness and passion.

With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A.S. Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge against the background of the great changes of their times - in society, politics, education and literature. As she charts their personal lives, traces the growth of their ideas, and shows how these are reflected in their work, readers are presented with pictures not only of the two poets themselves, but also of their families, friends and contemporaries, including Southey, de Quincey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron and Keats.

In this concluding volume Frederica falls almost by accident into a career in television in London whilst tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life.

A collection of three stories, each haunted in a different way by the spirit of Matisse, from the winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for Possession.

Yorkshire 1952. As the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the story of an eccentric family fatefully divided. It is an entertaining tale, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and comedy intersect richly and unpredictably.

Federica Potter plunges into Cambridge university life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. This is the second novel in the Federica Potter quartet.

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.

A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains The Glass Coffin and Gode's Tale of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale.

A panoramic novel of family secrets, set against a backdrop of a bohemian, artistic late Victorian and Edwardian world, and with real commercial as well as literary potential, about the damage wrought by writers of children's books on their children - about predators and innocents, war and peace, art and society.